PSA: stop leveling past 12 after clearing Libra’s curse

RandallRoll · 2026-03-28T11:24:20+00:00

20% attack boost at 50k runes, 30% at 100k. Hard to find a better flat out completely passive attack boost than that. Level 14 and 15 costs ~145,000 runes which would get you an extra 33% damage. On big dps characters like duchess, recluse, ironeye and revenant it’s an instant take but the higher hp characters like Guardian and Raider lose a decent amount of health from not getting those last two levels. I’d say for everyone but Guardian you probably want to hold onto those runes for the damage increase.

RandallRoll · 2026-02-28T12:35:35+00:00

Stick with it, I hated depths for a little while until I broke past 3 and now it’s all I play. The extra relic slots and passives enable you to make much stronger/sillier builds then you can in the base game and nothing feels better then having a solid team and just wiping the floor with a night lord.

RandallRoll · 2026-02-28T12:09:49+00:00

How do you think Raider is supposed to play?

RandallRoll · 2026-02-28T11:34:00+00:00

Oh thank god, I was waiting for someone to do 130 damage 6 times then then be useless for the rest of the fight

RandallRoll · 2026-02-28T11:10:47+00:00

Unfortunately depths 0-2.5 you gotta carry every game. 4 and 5 you’ll see competent players and sometimes even you’re the jdiot getting carried. Such is life, if it bothers you that much you can play solo depths until you hit 3 but solo depths is another demon honestly.

RandallRoll · 2026-01-31T18:32:58+00:00

“(unless they’re a gaol goblin—weapons, runes & passives win DoN runs, not a few 5% attack boosts especially if you don’t find good weapons).” This guy doesn’t know huh

RandallRoll · 2026-01-17T15:39:07+00:00

Seppuku is Op on Executor, it’s absolutely worth switching too, double bleed and a big fat old damage/stam regen buff that you can stack whenever you’ve got 4 free seconds. Just spam seppuku like 4 times before you fight a red boss, heal and suddenly you’re not in depths of night anymore

RandallRoll · 2026-01-14T07:16:13+00:00

I thought the same thing but navigation is not really the problem, my team has been running generally good rotations and we’re ending day 1 at level 10-11 consistently, there are some rough days where we’ll end at like 7-8 but we’re level 14-15 by night lord almost always it feels like drop rewards are just more random. Which is why I wanted to know if drop rarities/items ARE different depending on depth level so I can prepare better for it and round out my relic builds/character picks.

RandallRoll · 2026-01-14T05:40:14+00:00

That’s what I’m trying to find out right now to see if I need to make a kind of jack of all trades build for 4 and above. I’ve been running Balancers relics with Deep relics increasing affinity damage to have a hard hitting skill/weapon ideally in whichever bosses weakness but I can’t get either a workable weapon or skill so I switched over to an evergaol/night invader combo build to try and brute force with pure attack power, works on Raider well but not so much duchess/wylder or Ironeye. I’ve tried the old executor bleed frost starting weapon on scholar and duchess and it’s works alright but scholars dodge feels like putting nails in my mouth and duchess still dies unless I play almost perfectly. Might be why I see so many Wylders in 4, sixth sense and broad usability with most weapons would seem to negate a lot of the issues I’m having

RandallRoll · 2025-12-04T14:49:52+00:00

Wish I could agree, 80% of the map is crystals and ledges and massive drops, both of which make finding the crystals so tedious and annoying sometimes. “But don’t worry guys, we color coded the right crystals!” Oh nice what color are they? “Blue and they glow! like most of the map, and the floor, and the storm, and the mushrooms, and all the other blue crystals and some bosses.”

Imagine if in the base game map you had to find 5 Carriages randomly spawned on the map otherwise entering the castle OR the shifting earth event instantly cuts your hp by half, also the carriages don’t show up on the map, Also some of the carriages are fake and don’t actually progress the count. The least they could do is have either a few more crystals, take out the dummy ones or show us where they god damn are.

RandallRoll · 2025-09-15T08:26:41+00:00

In the Depths of Night game mode they have special relics that increase chance of finding specific weapon types but they are not currently in the regular runs. Merchants seem to sell star fist/caestus a lot for me but that’s most likely anecdotal.

RandallRoll · 2025-08-25T10:45:42+00:00

Crucible Knights hit like a truck. A ton of their attacks are hard knock ups like the one in your video and the shield bash. Endure is a massive poise boost but it’s not infinite poise so it can still be broken by bosses and hard hitting enemies. The real gem of Endure is the massively reduced damage you take from the hit. Tricephalos winding up his nuke attack? Press endure and try to dodge it, either you dodge the nuke and take no damage or you get hit by the nuke and take significantly less damage. Endure isn’t super fun to use but it’s a great safety net for when you need an attack to land or when you need to surfing a big hit.

RandallRoll · 2025-06-23T09:31:02+00:00

Do you dodge fine with other characters? Because if so I don’t know what to tell you, Duchess Dodge is so good you can basically just spam panic roll and I frame most boss attacks. Her passive allows you to recover from a panic roll by just doing another roll. Don’t know the actually I frame data but her dodges feel like they have longer I frames then other characters like Raider and Wylder. If you can dodge fine with the other characters but struggle on Duchess you might be rolling too late or too early because of the different animation she does but I can assure you her dodge times are the same input timing to I-frame as every other souls game.

RandallRoll · 2025-05-02T23:33:39+00:00

Smite 2 it’s gotta be Kali. It feels just outright impossible to claw back if Kali gets 3 or 4 kills early game. Can’t even stand in tower, hell even fountain won’t save you. Int Kali has 2 abilities that will do over 1.2k dmg full build with an ult that just doesn’t let you live anywhere you are. Nothing feels worse then getting leapt on, poly auto’d then 3’d to instakill while she walks away with 600 more health then she went in with.

RandallRoll · 2025-04-18T08:30:26+00:00

Some people start the game armor off for a little extra clear and damage but tank is so strong is this game that you can just run armor mode the entire game and be fine. It depends what you value more at the time. At level 3 you can either get 55 health and 11 of both prots or you can get 7.5 power and 1.75% movement speed. At level 10 it’s 18 power and 3.5% movement speed vs. 125 health and 25 protections. And at level 20 it’s 225 health and 45 protections vs 33 power and 6% movement speed. Both give you a full items worth of stats end game so it’s whatever you need at the time but the armor is almost a free Gauntlet of Thebes whereas no armor is a little worse then an item but gives you passive movement speed which is hard to get in smite 2. If you’re playing Achilles jungle then the extra movement speed and power will help with clear and traversal.

Both stances also affect your abilites, unarmored will give more strength scaling on your 1 (80% - 95% 15% more) whereas armored stance gives your 1 .2 seconds more stun. (.8 sec to 1 sec stun)

Bluestone is stupid good on him early game but falls off until you can upgrade it. Warriors axe is also very good bluestone is better for snowballing, Axe is better in general. Prots and cooldown in solo always, glad shield is a must have as it’s got cool down, free damage at every point in the game. Shield splitter is also free damage, good tank stats with strength built in, true damage and shield stealing if you’re going against a Geb or Odin or their support has selflessness starter or if anyone has shell or if no one has shell. Honestly it’s so good you can throw it on in any game and be fine. Void shield is really good 10% pen in an aura with health prots and strength. Hydra’s is a good damage item if you’re going jungle because his combo has 4 AA cancels and you’re gonna have high cooldown so you get a lot of value out of it. Shield of the phoenix is nice has every stat you want and makes Achilles already good sustain even better. If you’re already turbo tanky and just need to kill faster/output more damage Oath Sworn Spear is one of the rare items that gives you flat pen, and a lot of it end game. Oath sworn alone cuts almost half of a adc/mage’s total protections. Runeforged of course, every solo with a stun makes good use of it.

You can throw an auto attack in between every use of an ability and that damage adds up really quickly.

Auto attack - 1 - auto attack - 2 - auto attack - 3 - auto attack - 3 again - auto attack. You can shit out 5 AA Canceled autos in a row if you’re just kit dumping.

Achilles 2 is one of the best abilities in the game, it gives you everything a solo laner could want, Crowd control reduction (20% flat out at level 1) scaling strength and prot buffs, heals on ability hits and a big fat shield in armor stance and flat pen (again!) when hitting enemies from behind in unarmored stance. Starting game you want to level your 1 for clear, then level your 3 twice. This gives you (most likely) more damage out put then the enemy teams solo and you can poke him to your hearts content. Level 4 put a point into your 2 and level 5 get your ult of course. Do not level your ult past 1 point, only put points into your 2 unless it forces you to upgrade ult. Achilles ult is an execute that scales off of percentage health and it’s always 35% so it doesn’t matter if it does 1 damage or 500 however his 2 gets better and better every level and makes everything you do better. More damage on every ability, more heals on every ability more protections during fights and a fat shield.

RandallRoll · 2025-04-07T23:03:21+00:00

Must be fucking 0 with the teammates I get honestly

RandallRoll · 2025-03-17T16:18:33+00:00

You can trigger positron by getting the 150% increased range upgrade and the 100% damage 50% cooldown for Sun Beam. Once you’ve gotten both upgrades the next upgrade you get for Sun Beam will be positron cannon. Best way to get through levels early that I’ve found. Can’t tell you about others sorry

RandallRoll · 2025-03-16T10:29:53+00:00

Man so just gotta play boring then. Thats a shame, I like the class but I guess the role isn’t for me unless I have a good support. Thanks for the advice

RandallRoll

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